Pandemonium is in charge of the main spreadsheet. It's Christmas time so I'll assume he's busy with family business and I'm not going to bug him.

@ Pandemonium: I have started going through the finished games and adding up the kills in chat, so when you go through the games, look in the chat window first. The kills etc. might already be listed.

@Janomike: Okay I finished going through all the games that are complete as of this morning. I posted kills, wins, and sweeps in chat. I didn't add up between games, but as a rough ballpark I'm guessing you have about 24 points this round? Second only to fuzzy right now, although of course there are a lot more games still active. Other people that seem to have done quite well so far in this round are wombat4, Jinks, Night Strike, and westbo. I think westbo had the only perfect sweep I've seen so far. This is all unofficial until Pan does the math.

2019-10-17 22:46:23 - MGSteve: Some games you're the dog. Some games you're the hydrant.

aalii - still remains on the TOPJanomike - a solid 2 win jump to No.2Fuzzy316 - incredible 3 win jump from 0 points to No.3westbo - steady climbing up wombat - another incredible jump from the bottom to No.5 (sharing it with calicus)

AND AHAPPY NEW YEAR to all participants - BEST WISHES - LIVE LONG AND PROSPERPandemonium

OK, Phase 2 is finally over, after pushing an early ending on the historic last Game 10230966 - I hope we learned a lesson here and from Phase 3 there will be a round limit of 30, or less - Dukasaur should decide...

With the long delay between Phase Two and Phase Three, it is possible that there will be some dropouts, in which case some of those might be able to get back in, but yes, as of this moment we will say goodbye to those seven.

Pandemonium wrote:OK, Phase 2 is finally over, after pushing an early ending on the historic last Game 10230966 - I hope we learned a lesson here and from Phase 3 there will be a round limit of 30, or less - Dukasaur should decide...

A lot of people believe in round limits. I'm not sure if I agree. I think it might make the problem worse instead of better. In the games I've played in with round limits, I find the strategy gets distorted. Some people play more conservatively, hoping to milk it until the round limit arrives. So far in this tournament 95% of the games ended in round 12 or less, and only one went past round 18.

I'll gamble that the one deadlocked game is an anomaly, especially since Phase Three is a Sunny phase. If we continue having problems we can still go to round limits, but for now let's take a chance and try it without for this Phase.

I'm off to compile the seeding data for Phase Three! Your new games will start soon!

2019-10-17 22:46:23 - MGSteve: Some games you're the dog. Some games you're the hydrant.

Looks like volrazz has vanished from CC, so one of the 2-pt players gets to stay in.

They all have 2 kills, zero wins, and no head-to-head kills or wins, so we go to the very last tiebreaker (precedence). Wilkinc is at the very top of the precedence ladder. He was, in fact, the very first player to sign up, so he unquestionably gets this one!

Edit: I have another glitch. Looks like gameplayer has not renewed his premium. Since gameplayer is currenly the #2 seed with a CC score of 2961, and his replacement would be Crarg with a CC score of 1666, it would be a serious disruption of the seeding to insert Crarg directly for gameplayer. I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather know in advance and re-adjust the seeding. I've sent a message to gameplayer to see if he intends to renew. We've waited this long, waiting another 12 hours or so won't kill us.

Edit 2: Okay, I got an answer back from gameplayer. He is not renewing his premium, and therefore cannot continue in this tournament. Crarg is inserted into the seeding between torres44cm and whakamole, and everybody above that moves up 1 seed.

2019-10-17 22:46:23 - MGSteve: Some games you're the dog. Some games you're the hydrant.

Dukasaur wrote:Phase Three: China's Place in the World(56 or more players)70You ponder China's position as a superpower on the world stage.One game on the Greater China mapOne game on the Fractured China (Beta) mapOne game on the Classic mapOne game on the World 2.1 mapOne game on the Land and Sea map

Games have been created and invitations sent out!

Good luck in Phase Three, everybody!!!

Remember that Phase Three has a double round of eliminations. There will be 14 players cut instead of 7 at the end of this round.

Dukasaur wrote:

Pandemonium wrote:OK, Phase 2 is finally over, after pushing an early ending on the historic last Game 10230966 - I hope we learned a lesson here and from Phase 3 there will be a round limit of 30, or less - Dukasaur should decide...

A lot of people believe in round limits. I'm not sure if I agree. I think it might make the problem worse instead of better. In the games I've played in with round limits, I find the strategy gets distorted. Some people play more conservatively, hoping to milk it until the round limit arrives. So far in this tournament 95% of the games ended in round 12 or less, and only one went past round 18.

I'll gamble that the one deadlocked game is an anomaly, especially since Phase Three is a Sunny phase. If we continue having problems we can still go to round limits, but for now let's take a chance and try it without for this Phase.

I wrote all that, but then I started making the World 2.1 games, and I remembered reading that World 2.1 has a bad reputation for deadlocking even in Escalating, so I decided to put in round limits for the World 2.1 games anyway.

2019-10-17 22:46:23 - MGSteve: Some games you're the dog. Some games you're the hydrant.

Dukasaur wrote:Phase Three: China's Place in the World(56 or more players)70You ponder China's position as a superpower on the world stage.One game on the Greater China mapOne game on the Fractured China (Beta) mapOne game on the Classic mapOne game on the World 2.1 mapOne game on the Land and Sea map

Games have been created and invitations sent out!

Good luck in Phase Three, everybody!!!

Remember that Phase Three has a double round of eliminations. There will be 14 players cut instead of 7 at the end of this round.

Dukasaur wrote:

Pandemonium wrote:OK, Phase 2 is finally over, after pushing an early ending on the historic last Game 10230966 - I hope we learned a lesson here and from Phase 3 there will be a round limit of 30, or less - Dukasaur should decide...

A lot of people believe in round limits. I'm not sure if I agree. I think it might make the problem worse instead of better. In the games I've played in with round limits, I find the strategy gets distorted. Some people play more conservatively, hoping to milk it until the round limit arrives. So far in this tournament 95% of the games ended in round 12 or less, and only one went past round 18.

I'll gamble that the one deadlocked game is an anomaly, especially since Phase Three is a Sunny phase. If we continue having problems we can still go to round limits, but for now let's take a chance and try it without for this Phase.

I wrote all that, but then I started making the World 2.1 games, and I remembered reading that World 2.1 has a bad reputation for deadlocking even in Escalating, so I decided to put in round limits for the World 2.1 games anyway.

Thank you for that!

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